[Event funded by the Antonian Fund and the MEC​] About the speakers: Dr Roham Alvandi is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is... Read more

Followed by Q&A with the Director - Mary Jirmanus Saba [Co-sponsored by the Centre for Lebanese Studies] SYNOPSIS A car with a loudspeaker on its roof is driving through southern Lebanon. The old... Read more

[Co-sponsored by the Centre for Lebanese Studies] Interest in social movements in the Arab World piqued following the so-called Arab Spring and heralded a series of publications, some of which... Read more

About the author: Dr. Phil. Sarah El-Richani is visiting fellow at the Centre for Lebanese Studies, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford and from January 2018, Assistant Professor at the... Read more

About the speaker: Noa Landau is the editor Haaretz’s English edition, the paper’s incoming Diplomatic Correspondent, and formerly Head of the Haaretz News Department. Prior to Haaretz, Landau worked... Read more

About the speaker: Dr Hugh Roberts is the Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA and a specialist on North African... Read more

Ilan Pappé (Professor of History, and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter)

22 November 2017 - 7:30pm

Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College

[Co-organised by the Oxford Students' Palestine Society, Oxford Jewish Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Oxford SU Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality] About the speakers: Professor... Read more

About the speaker: Helen Lackner worked as a consultant in social aspects of rural development for four decades in over thirty countries, mostly in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. She is... Read more

About the speaker: Ziad Majed, a Lebanese/French political scientist, is an associate professor of Middle East studies and International Affairs at the American University of Paris. His research... Read more

About the speaker: Joanna de Groot has interests in three main areas. Her initial research into the social history of Iran in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has led to work on various aspects... Read more

Wednesday venue: Board Room, Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College Thursday venue: Maison Françoise d’Oxford Panels are open to the public and students but places are limited and prior registration... Read more

About the speaker: Hatsuki Aishima is a social anthropologist specialising in Islam and public culture in the contemporary Middle East. She received her MA from Kyoto University (Area Studies, 2002)... Read more

Please join us for an informal discussion with one of Turkey’s most inspiring and successful grassroots youth NGOs. YGA Founder Sinan Yaman and YGA President Asude Altıntaş will give brief... Read more

Professor Robert Springborg (Italian Institute of International Affairs, Rome)

3 November 2017 - 5:00pm

Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College

About the speaker: Robert Springborg is a non-resident Research Fellow of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, Rome. Until October 2013, he was Professor of National Security Affairs at... Read more